Pocketbook



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RENT L/VUNDRY He/erv. cJ. Lyndes @Nawy R K/es INVENTORS Mm mm Patented Feb. 8, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE POCKETBOOK Helen J. Lyndes, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mary R. Kies, Cleveland, Ohio Ihis invention relates to an improved form of bag or pocketbook for ladies and girls, the present device representing another specific form of the same generic invention as is embodied in our Patent No. 2,274,718. i

As explained in our companion application, it is a source of considerable confusion for a lady or girl to keep all of her funds in the same single compartment of a bag or pocket book and, at the same time, try to observe a budget. In attempting to rely upon ones memory from time to time as to the amount allowed in the budget for any specific purpose and the amount already expended for any such item or class of items, there is constant danger of permitting the expenditures for certain items to encroach upon the cash which should be reserved for other items, with the result that the budget might be thrown out of balance as to expenditures and items as originally planned. It is also a source of annoyance, while shopping, to keep an actual record of the amounts allowed and expended for various items; in fact, this is very rarely done.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to devise a form of pocket-book or bag with means for allocating the entire fund into separate specific appropriations according to the budget which has already been planned, so as to thereby afford at all times an up-to-date accounting or a running balance without requiring any particular attention or calculation as purchases are made from time to time.

More specifically, the present invention consists in providing a lady's bag with several separate compartments or containers upon the inside thereof, each of which has means for indicating the items or class of items for which the individual appropriation thereof is intended, such information being provided for each compartment or container so as to ear-mark the money which is placed within each individual container as allowed by the budget as already adopted. All of the several containers or compartments are located and arranged in such manner within the main part of the bag that they are all readily accessible upon opening the main part of the bag, and the purpose of the funds in each container is readily discernible at a glance.

Other objects will appear from the following description and claims when considered together with the accompanying drawing.

It is to be understood that the particular form of disclosure here presented is merely for the purpose of illustration and that there might be adopted various modifications thereof without departing from the spirit of the invention as herein set forth and claimed.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view with part broken away;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a part enlarged;

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Fig. 3 illustrates one of the removable cards for the data.

Our present form of bag I is made of leather or like material and is of substantially oblong shape with a closure flap 2 provided at the top there'- of. Any suitable fastening means may be provided for this flap, this bag having no other opening. The present form of bag is of the gusset type although the particular design of bag may vary.

Upon the inner surface of the rear wall of the bag we have provided a plurality of smaller purses 3 arranged in a row at proper elevation to be readily accessible upon opening the bag l. These auxiliary purses may also be made of the gusset type although any other suitable type may be adopted. In the present disclosure, there are shown four of these auxiliary purses or containers secured to the rear wall of the main bag I by stitching the same through the rear walls of the same, as indicated by reference numeral 4, this stitching running along the crease between the flap 5 and the rear wall of each smaller purse. This arrangement facilitates the attachment of the inner compartments or containers to the main bag and it permits the inner purses to be tilted forwardly away from the rear wall of the main bag in order to permit a closer inspection of the notations upon the front of each of the smaller purses, as will be explained, or to permit inversion of the smaller purses independently of each other for the purpose of emptying any one of them at any time, without disturbing the others.

We have provided the outer face of the front wall of each individual purse 3 with a window frame 6 which is made of leather or the like and is sewed onto the same. This window frame has an open window and is open at the one end thereof so as to permit a card 6a to he slid thereinto for inspection through the window, this card in each instance bearing the names of the items or class of items for which the particular compartment or purse is intended, according to the budget already adopted. For example, one of these cards will be marked with the notation Food, rent and laundry; another card will be marked Clothing; still another card will be marked Health, entertainment, etc.; while upon another card there will be the notation Insurance and savings." These cards may be removed at any time desired and the notations thereon charged according to any revision of the budget. The amount of money alloted in the budget for food, rent and laundry will be placed in its particular purse; the money which has been allotted for clothing will be placed in its compartment, etc. If so desired, the percentage of the budget allowed for each class of items may be marked upon the card along with the other data just mentioned.

With this form of pocket-book or bag, there will be no danger of becoming confused and upsetting the budget by spending for one purpose part of the money which has been set aside in the budget for another purpose. As the -money of any one compartment is being expended, there is always an opportunity to observe how much money remains for the item or class of items noted upon that particular container and there is precluded the confusion and annoyance which so often resulted from hurried mental calculations during shopping expeditions. With our budgeting bag, the calculations are all made in advance, at the time of arranging the budget, and the several appropriations are actually allocated into separate funds which are placed in the several small purses instead of the old system of having co-mingled funds for all the items contemplated by the budget. Thus there is always maintained, without any efiort, a running balance which makes it possible to always keep within the budget and to have the items which it was intended to purchase according to the budget.

In this particular form of device, the compartments are all located and arranged in a most convenient manner for observation at any time, without interfering with the other uses of the main part of the bag. Also, the individual compartments are secured to the main bag in a convenient manner, both as to actual operation of attaching the same thereto and also as to the possibility of tilting the bottom of any one of the smaller containers forwardly for closer inspection of the data carried on the front thereof or in order to tilt the container to inverted position for emptying the same independently of the other purses. Furthermore, this invention may be adopted and embodied in any leather bag of the same general style as herein illustrated without requiring any reconstruction or even modification thereof except for the attachment of the smaller purses in the very simple and efiective manner herein described. Finally, the flaps of the individual containers may be so constructed and arranged that the closed condition of the flap of the main bag will serve to hold the flaps of the smaller containers closed also. In any event, this relative arrangement of the flaps or closures will serve as a safeguard against any money being dislodged accidentally from any of the inner containers in case the inner flaps should not be actually locked. Thus there is reduced the danger of any of the money being dislodged from any of the inner containers.

This combined bag can be made and sold at a popular price and thus it may be bought and used by all classes of purchasers and its advantages enjoyed by the entire class of the public for whom intended.

What we claim is:

A budgeting pocket-book comprising a main compartment adapted to be opened at the top and having its front and rear walls capable of a relative swinging movement in opening and closing the same, a plurality of auxiliary containers mounted individually in a horizontal row upon the rear wall of and within said main compartment near the top thereof so as to be readily accessible upon opening said main compartment, each of said auxiliary containers being open at the top and having a flap closure, said main compartment and auxiliary containers being secured together by attaching along a line corresponding substantially with the crease between the flap and body of each of said auxiliary containers and being otherwise free, whereby each auxiliary container may be tilted upwardly about the line of said attaching so as to permit emptying of any one container independently of the others, each of said auxiliary containers being of less depth than the front-to-rear extent of the main compartment when fully open, to permit such upward swinging movement of each individual auxiliary container for emptying the same, and means removably mounted upon the front side of each of said auxiliary containers for indicating the specific purpose for which the contents thereof are intended.

HELEN J. LYNDES. MARY R. KIES. 

